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If you don't pay, you get 5 gigs. You can buy more, if that's not enough.

You cannot just move anything to iCloud. An app that wants to use it has to be coded for it, and then it's used automatically. If you want a cloud service that works like a regular old network share and works well with Macs and iOS device,s consider Dropbox.

Photos is a special case. Apple has a feature called Photostream, apparently intended to let your computers back up each other. What happens is that when you take a photo with Photostream on, it is copied to a special part of your iCloud account that does not count against the 5 gigs. It stays there for 30 days. Any Mac you have that signs in to the same iCloud account and has iPhoto will download anything saved to Photostream, so as long as you open it at least once every month, you photos will be replicated to all devices.

The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.

I start to like iCloud, honestly. It is rather great not to have to do anything, everything is just in sync, and also backupped. I wonder, sometimes, if there is any Android integration, or how the windows integration really works, but apparently, it is alright, like Apple products on Windows can use it, too, hmm. Dunno, it is sort of well done at Apple, and well-integrated.

I changed the name of the thread - it said "i could" instead of "iCloud."

You can make your external drive an encrypted volume and that would keep it from prying eyes. The issue with an external drive for backup is that you have to have it with you to use it, whereas something like Dropbox or iCloud is as close as the nearest network connection.

Question:
Just testing Dropbox and I had to do a copy of file. Why? Isn't this on another hardrive in the cloud?
If I did not use option key to copy, the file moved from desktop to the dropbox folder. thanks.

If you are deleting your cookies, this is why you have to constantly log in. Why are you deleting your cookies?

He did that on the advice of another member to get rid of faulty cookies...

Jeff, once you've deleted the cookies, you need to visit the site, log in, and give the browser a chance to save the cookie - more than just "log in and leave." Oh, and you ARE just leaving, right? Not logging out when you leave?

I have to correct a wee bit of misinformation in this thread -- you can absolutely store Microsoft Office documents in your 5GB iCloud account, since they are compatible with and treated as iWork documents.